Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Summary

SharePoint 2010 offers many new features and enhancements that improve extranet scenarios for collaboration with partners, vendors, and customers. Many of the enhancements and features overcome issues and limitations found in SharePoint 2007 extranet solutions. In addition, improved Office client integration with forms-based authentication and other authentication providers make SharePoint 2010 a better extranet solution platform.

This chapter discussed the common reasons and audiences for using extranet solutions, common topologies used to implement extranet solutions, the security authentication models in SharePoint 2010, and how to upgrade an existing SharePoint 2007 extranet. It demonstrates how to configure a SharePoint web applications ...